My solution, I think, would be very effective, and in the current administration (waves at the VP) virtually impossible to implement.
Simply this: Change copyright and patent law such that the rights belong to one (individual, not corporate) person for the term of their natural life, and prohibit the reassignment of those rights to any other person or body.
It's easy for us to forget the complexity and blame the sysadmin, too. It might be wise to periodically remind the user community that these are machines with billions upon billions of intangible but very real moving parts. The number of utilities and GUI property pages we have to use are many - thousands - and when budgets are trimmed a little too tightly, some of the bits will become misaligned. Knowledge or no, the sysadmin has a fairly huge workload and you have to allow time to get it right before you go public and fire the sysadmin because you brought him on with capex instead of opex.
There is difference between being able to access the database directly, and accessing the database through phpmyadmin:
- On any website i have used , by default direct access to the database is only possible for localhost . - phpmyadmin is publiciy accessible for everyone, allowing you to administer the database, from any place. - to get to phpmyadmin, you are required to authenticate.
If phpmyadmin doesn't have a password, the password on database isn't going to matter much , as you can change your password through phpmyadmin anyway.
One point - I've set up a couple of XAMPP installations, but I can't remember whether it allows multiple login fails without an air-gap. If it doesn't have a form of interrupt here, it's susceptible to a simple odometer attack. Can anyone remember?
...A space elevator/orbital tether needs to be at the rotational equator.
No, it doesn't. If not on the equator, it will simply be a bit longer, and appear to go up at an angle. This might not be a bad thing either, as it's generally easier to push things up a ramp than lift them straight up.
The tether, if made of a conductive material like graphene, would become super charged with high voltages just from the air currents whorling around it....
You say that like it's a bad thing. Golly, all of those oil-free volts going to waste. And it wouldn't be all that difficult to run the car, you just gradually raise the charge on the vehicle (and the inhabitants) to the same charge as the cable before launch. Have a look at what high-wire linesmen are doing today.
And then, finally, what happens if there is an accident? Many kilometers of highly energized, and kinetically taught razorwire with toughness surpassing all other construction materials whipping round the planet sounds pretty dangerous to me.
If it breaks, you snap it loose from the base and let the lower part fly upwards. A solution can be engineered
Really, the logistics of such a project just don't make for a plausible project, barring some kind of officious one world government that doesn't brook dissent.
The whole of the value of the prequels to me were the war engines that were early Frank Kelly Freas illustrated concepts made into wonderful kinetic eye candy. The spherical tank with the huge hoop wheels was right out of the Golden Age. I see all that as mobile art, not cinema, and it was worth the price of the tickets to me to see it.
Whenever I hear this meme touted (and I've heard it a *lot* over the last 40 years) I immediately think -- someone wants to shave a few maintenance dollars, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
Pepperspray is not the minimal level of force. The minimal level of force would have been to pick the protesters up and move them arrest them whatever. The use of pepper spray was to instil fear into the protesters.
Isn't there a term for the act of using violence to instill fear in a group of people?
I am currently developing a chlorine-resistant form of algae in my backyard pool.
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If you judge by the article she's bucking the system by looking at naked mole rats for an explanation for why they don't get cancer. The irony is that if she succeeds in finding the explanation and isolating it out to a treatment protocol the first thing she'll do is give some mice cancer and see if the treatment works on them (ok, maybe the second if the mechanism can be disabled in the naked mole rat somehow). That isn't bucking the system, it's being at a different stage in your research; she's still forming a hypothesis as to what an effective treatment could be. Once she has that she'll move right over to the sterile, genetically identical, and above all biologically consistent lab mice and rats. Why? Because that is how you perform replicatable animal trials. If someone halfway around the world can't replicate your results your experiment isn't worth much, that's why we have millions of essentially cloned lab mice in the first place.
Many of us hate the RIAA, but we like the music and some of us are actually willing to purchase said music... Sadly, depending on the channel, we may have to give them some money. But that doesn't mean we've forgotten that link. Some of us feel that it's important to legally purchase the music of our favorite artists, and are willing to concede that some of it goes to them.
...and some of us do not. Independent music is a better buy. I will gladly (and frequently do) buy music. It's civilised. However, the band of companies behind RIAA will get not one dollar from me, simply because I don't like them. Call it "their marketing dollars in action".
Next time you decided to deport all your religious wackos, please do not send them all to one place. It weakens the gene pool. If you'd sent us some of those criminals you sent down under to dilute the wacjobbery things would have turned out better.
If you were serious about platform security, you wouldn't be running on an OS at all. You'd have one single application that included its own device drivers. Costly, yes -- but also very secure if you write the lot yourself. Just don't open any doors at all.
By reading this comment, you agree to be bound by the terms listed herein; If you are a member, employee, associate, business partner, or affiliate of the RIAA or MPAA, you owe me one million ($1,000,000.00) USD, payable in full immediately. Thanks to your f*cked up interpretation of the law, this is, in fact, perfectly legal. Any attempt to evade this legally binding contract will be grounds for me to sue you at three times the requested amount, waive your right to a trial, and hold me utterly and totally immune to any form of legal challenge by you and/or your employer, until at least 150 years after my timely and natural death. Everybody else... I love 'ya. Stay awesome.
Ever tried to cut aluminum sheet with an oxy torch? If you don't contain the heat, you'll often get exactly nowhere. Stuff conducts heat way too fast to cut in some circumstances. I'd say make a little oven out of ceramic -- bricks will probably do. It will melt at strawberry red, but it won't cut.
I can imagine Google saying "Sorry, we don't police the wires. If you're unhappy with that, well, that's unfortunate, I'm sorry you feel that way. Oh look, there goes the.uk domain (click). Oops, didn't mean to press that. Have you considered using AltaVista?
Make them large enough and the solar loading could turn a large, lenticular airship into a hot air balloon. Fly for free during daylight, stored energy or fueled torch for evening use. Weather dependent, but hey, air is free...
... It's that that they require large ground crews to manage....
[Citation Needed]. Highly skilled or just somewhat trained? How many? I'd guess the head count could be managed. Specialised heavy tether vehicles or tethering installations, cable capture and spool down -- these could be engineered, and could bring the personnel cost down. And you could bloody well earth them against static.
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My solution, I think, would be very effective, and in the current administration (waves at the VP) virtually impossible to implement.
Simply this: Change copyright and patent law such that the rights belong to one (individual, not corporate) person for the term of their natural life, and prohibit the reassignment of those rights to any other person or body.
It's easy for us to forget the complexity and blame the sysadmin, too. It might be wise to periodically remind the user community that these are machines with billions upon billions of intangible but very real moving parts. The number of utilities and GUI property pages we have to use are many - thousands - and when budgets are trimmed a little too tightly, some of the bits will become misaligned. Knowledge or no, the sysadmin has a fairly huge workload and you have to allow time to get it right before you go public and fire the sysadmin because you brought him on with capex instead of opex.
There is difference between being able to access the database directly, and accessing the database through phpmyadmin :
- On any website i have used , by default direct access to the database is only possible for localhost .
- phpmyadmin is publiciy accessible for everyone, allowing you to administer the database, from any place.
- to get to phpmyadmin, you are required to authenticate.
If phpmyadmin doesn't have a password, the password on database isn't going to matter much , as you can change your password through phpmyadmin anyway.
One point - I've set up a couple of XAMPP installations, but I can't remember whether it allows multiple login fails without an air-gap. If it doesn't have a form of interrupt here, it's susceptible to a simple odometer attack. Can anyone remember?
Forget chain maille! Knit me a jumper out of this.
Maybe we can breed up a special brand of sheep...
...A space elevator/orbital tether needs to be at the rotational equator.
No, it doesn't. If not on the equator, it will simply be a bit longer, and appear to go up at an angle. This might not be a bad thing either, as it's generally easier to push things up a ramp than lift them straight up.
The tether, if made of a conductive material like graphene, would become super charged with high voltages just from the air currents whorling around it. ...
You say that like it's a bad thing. Golly, all of those oil-free volts going to waste. And it wouldn't be all that difficult to run the car, you just gradually raise the charge on the vehicle (and the inhabitants) to the same charge as the cable before launch. Have a look at what high-wire linesmen are doing today.
And then, finally, what happens if there is an accident? Many kilometers of highly energized, and kinetically taught razorwire with toughness surpassing all other construction materials whipping round the planet sounds pretty dangerous to me.
If it breaks, you snap it loose from the base and let the lower part fly upwards. A solution can be engineered
Really, the logistics of such a project just don't make for a plausible project, barring some kind of officious one world government that doesn't brook dissent.
This ain't your lawn, and I ain't getting off it.
Twinkle, twinkle little volt
So far from your lightning bolt
To your anode in the sky
We will watch your sparkles fly
The whole of the value of the prequels to me were the war engines that were early Frank Kelly Freas illustrated concepts made into wonderful kinetic eye candy. The spherical tank with the huge hoop wheels was right out of the Golden Age. I see all that as mobile art, not cinema, and it was worth the price of the tickets to me to see it.
Whenever I hear this meme touted (and I've heard it a *lot* over the last 40 years) I immediately think -- someone wants to shave a few maintenance dollars, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
Your money, your choice.
especially fertilizers... they can be used to make rocket fuel! imagine all those farmers engaging in criminal activities all over the world!
think of the children people!
Ammonia bird in a guilty cage
Pepperspray is not the minimal level of force. The minimal level of force would have been to pick the protesters up and move them arrest them whatever. The use of pepper spray was to instil fear into the protesters.
Isn't there a term for the act of using violence to instill fear in a group of people?
I am currently developing a chlorine-resistant form of algae in my backyard pool.
If you judge by the article she's bucking the system by looking at naked mole rats for an explanation for why they don't get cancer. The irony is that if she succeeds in finding the explanation and isolating it out to a treatment protocol the first thing she'll do is give some mice cancer and see if the treatment works on them (ok, maybe the second if the mechanism can be disabled in the naked mole rat somehow). That isn't bucking the system, it's being at a different stage in your research; she's still forming a hypothesis as to what an effective treatment could be. Once she has that she'll move right over to the sterile, genetically identical, and above all biologically consistent lab mice and rats. Why? Because that is how you perform replicatable animal trials. If someone halfway around the world can't replicate your results your experiment isn't worth much, that's why we have millions of essentially cloned lab mice in the first place.
Clear thinking, mod up please.
Bootable BSD or Linux on USB.
I'd suggest Ubuntu, with a "readme.txt" written for those who will plug it into their Windows box.
Give them a text list of apt-get commands and tell them all the software was pirated :P
...There is such a thing as a middle ground. These body scanners are on one end, having nothing is the other. I'd prefer something in the middle.
Hire Israeli airport guards instead.
In order to protect our citizens from terrorism, we had to sterilize them.
Many of us hate the RIAA, but we like the music and some of us are actually willing to purchase said music... Sadly, depending on the channel, we may have to give them some money. But that doesn't mean we've forgotten that link. Some of us feel that it's important to legally purchase the music of our favorite artists, and are willing to concede that some of it goes to them.
...and some of us do not. Independent music is a better buy. I will gladly (and frequently do) buy music. It's civilised. However, the band of companies behind RIAA will get not one dollar from me, simply because I don't like them. Call it "their marketing dollars in action".
-- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Yes -- but could we get the 1% to fund it? They have all the money now.
Dear Rest Of The World:
Next time you decided to deport all your religious wackos, please do not send them all to one place. It weakens the gene pool. If you'd sent us some of those criminals you sent down under to dilute the wacjobbery things would have turned out better.
Too right, mate.
-- An Adopted Australian
If you were serious about platform security, you wouldn't be running on an OS at all. You'd have one single application that included its own device drivers. Costly, yes -- but also very secure if you write the lot yourself. Just don't open any doors at all.
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By reading this comment, you agree to be bound by the terms listed herein; If you are a member, employee, associate, business partner, or affiliate of the RIAA or MPAA, you owe me one million ($1,000,000.00) USD, payable in full immediately. Thanks to your f*cked up interpretation of the law, this is, in fact, perfectly legal. Any attempt to evade this legally binding contract will be grounds for me to sue you at three times the requested amount, waive your right to a trial, and hold me utterly and totally immune to any form of legal challenge by you and/or your employer, until at least 150 years after my timely and natural death. Everybody else... I love 'ya. Stay awesome.
Damn. No mod points.
Ever tried to cut aluminum sheet with an oxy torch? If you don't contain the heat, you'll often get exactly nowhere. Stuff conducts heat way too fast to cut in some circumstances. I'd say make a little oven out of ceramic -- bricks will probably do. It will melt at strawberry red, but it won't cut.
I can imagine Google saying "Sorry, we don't police the wires. If you're unhappy with that, well, that's unfortunate, I'm sorry you feel that way. Oh look, there goes the .uk domain (click). Oops, didn't mean to press that. Have you considered using AltaVista?
Make them large enough and the solar loading could turn a large, lenticular airship into a hot air balloon. Fly for free during daylight, stored energy or fueled torch for evening use. Weather dependent, but hey, air is free...
So, really, why haven't we done more of this?
... It's that that they require large ground crews to manage....
[Citation Needed]. Highly skilled or just somewhat trained? How many? I'd guess the head count could be managed. Specialised heavy tether vehicles or tethering installations, cable capture and spool down -- these could be engineered, and could bring the personnel cost down. And you could bloody well earth them against static.